Our Ecological Footprint
Book description
Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualising the resources required to sustain households, communities, regions, and nations.
Why read it?
1 author picked Our Ecological Footprint as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Measuring environmental impact typically involves inscrutable measures like equivalent carbon emissions.
The Ecological Footprint method, devised by Wackernagel and Rees at the University of British Columbia, employs a much more palpable calculation of resource utilization and emissions: land. By demonstrating how the flows of global energy, materials, and waste can be converted into land-area equivalents, the authors make environmental impact tangible.
The book clearly articulates the most essential sustainability metric there is: one-Earth living.
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